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• homophone: Reid
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• homophone: Reade
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* As an English and Scottish surname, from the adjective red. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. * Also as an English surname, from several places in England, such as Reed, Lancashire (from Old English ra (“roe deer”) or Rede, Suffolk (see Rede). Compare Rider, Reader.

From Middle English red, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”), of uncertain origin. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian raid (“reed”), Saterland Frisian Räit (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Reet, Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳 (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm. They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius). The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.

From Middle English rede (“abomasum”), from Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.

From Middle English reden, from the noun (see above).

See ree.

203 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕒𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕣 (obuk) — grass-like plant
• Southern Altai: јекен (ǰeken) — grass-like plant
• Southern Altai: камыш (kamïš) — grass-like plant
• Amharic: መቃ (mäḳa) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: بُوصَة (būṣa) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: قصبة (ʔaṣaba) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: بوصة (bōṣa) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: قصب (qaṣb) — grass-like plant
• Arabic: قصبة (qaṣba) — grass-like plant
• Armenian: եղեգ (eġeg) — grass-like plant
• Aromanian: arugoz — grass-like plant
• Aromanian: trescã — grass-like plant
• Aromanian: shuvar — grass-like plant
• Assamese: ইকৰ (ikor) — grass-like plant
• Asturian: cañavera — grass-like plant
• Azerbaijani: qarğı — grass-like plant
• Azerbaijani: qamış — grass-like plant
• Bashkir: ҡамыш (qamış) — grass-like plant
• Bashkir: екән (yekən) — grass-like plant
• Basque: ihi — grass-like plant
• Belarusian: трыснёг (trysnjóh) — grass-like plant
• Belarusian: чаро́т (čarót) — grass-like plant
• Belarusian: трысцё (tryscjó) — grass-like plant
• Bulgarian: тръстика (trǎstika) — grass-like plant
• Cahuilla: paxal — grass-like plant
• Catalan: canya — grass-like plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 蘆葦 /芦苇 (lúwěi) — grass-like plant
• Czech: rákosí — grass-like plant
• Czech: sítí — grass-like plant
• Old Czech: trstina — grass-like plant
• Danish: siv — grass-like plant
• Danish: rør — grass-like plant
• Dutch: riet — grass-like plant
• Esperanto: kano — grass-like plant
• Faroese: sev — grass-like plant
• Finnish: kaisla — grass-like plant
• Finnish: ruoko — grass-like plant
• French: roseau — grass-like plant
• Galician: carrizo — grass-like plant
• Galician: cana — grass-like plant
• Galician: xunco — grass-like plant
• Georgian: ლერწამი (lerc̣ami) — grass-like plant
• German: Schilf — grass-like plant
• German: Ried — grass-like plant
• German: Rohr — grass-like plant
• Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃 (raus) — grass-like plant
• Greek: καλάμι (kalámi) — grass-like plant
• Greek: καλαμιά (kalamiá) — grass-like plant
• Ancient Greek: κάλαμος (kálamos) — grass-like plant
• Ancient Greek: θρύον (thrúon) — grass-like plant
• Hebrew: קָנֶה (qané) — grass-like plant
• Huichol: háca — grass-like plant
• Hungarian: nád — grass-like plant
• Icelandic: sef — grass-like plant
• Icelandic: reyr — grass-like plant
• Indonesian: alang — grass-like plant
• Indonesian: alang-alang — grass-like plant
• Ingrian: glaisa — grass-like plant
• Irish: giolcach — grass-like plant
• Irish: biorrach — grass-like plant
• Italian: canna — grass-like plant
• Italian: canniccio — grass-like plant
• Italian: giunco — grass-like plant
• Japanese: 葦 (yoshi) — grass-like plant
• Japanese: 蘆 (ashi) — grass-like plant
• Kazakh: қамыс (qamys) — grass-like plant
• Khmer: ប្របុស (prɑboh) — grass-like plant
• Korean: 갈대 (galdae) — grass-like plant
• Kyrgyz: камыш (kamış) — grass-like plant
• Latgalian: nīdre — grass-like plant
• Latin: harundō — grass-like plant
• Latin: iuncus — grass-like plant
• Latvian: niedre — grass-like plant
• Lithuanian: nendrė — grass-like plant
• Macedonian: трска (trska) — grass-like plant
• Mayo: baaca — grass-like plant
• Middle English: red — grass-like plant
• Mongolian: хулс (xuls) — grass-like plant
• Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠰᠤ (qulusu) — grass-like plant
• Classical Nahuatl: ācatl — grass-like plant
• Tetelcingo-Nahuatl: öcatl — grass-like plant
• Navajo: lókʼaaʼ — grass-like plant
• Norwegian: siv — grass-like plant
• Norwegian: rør — grass-like plant
• Occitan: canavèra — grass-like plant
• Occitan: rausa — grass-like plant
• Occitan: cana — grass-like plant
• Occitan: canòta — grass-like plant
• Old English: hreod — grass-like plant
• Persian: نی (ney) — grass-like plant
• Persian: غرو (qarv) — grass-like plant
• Plautdietsch: Schelp — grass-like plant
• Polish: trzcina — grass-like plant
• Portuguese: junco — grass-like plant
• Portuguese: cana — grass-like plant
• Romanian: stuf — grass-like plant
• Romanian: trestie — grass-like plant
• Russian: тростни́к (trostník) — grass-like plant
• Russian: камы́ш (kamýš) — grass-like plant
• Serbo-Croatian: тр̏ска — grass-like plant
• Serbo-Croatian: tȑska — grass-like plant
• Slovak: trstina — grass-like plant
• Slovak: tŕstie — grass-like plant
• Slovak: trsť — grass-like plant
• Slovene: trsje — grass-like plant
• Spanish: junco — grass-like plant
• Spanish: carrizo — grass-like plant
• Spanish: caña — grass-like plant
• Swedish: säv — grass-like plant
• Swedish: vass — grass-like plant
• Swedish: rör — grass-like plant
• Tagalog: tambo — grass-like plant
• Central Tarahumara: baká — grass-like plant
• Tarifit: aɣanim — grass-like plant
• Tatar: җикән (cikän) — grass-like plant
• Tatar: камыш (qamış) — grass-like plant
• Northern Tepehuan: vaapákai — grass-like plant
• Thai: กก (gòk) — grass-like plant
• Turkish: saz — grass-like plant
• Ottoman Turkish: قامش (kamış) — grass-like plant
• Ottoman Turkish: كلیز (kiliz) — grass-like plant
• Ottoman Turkish: صاز (saz) — grass-like plant
• Uab Meto: humusu — grass-like plant
• Ukrainian: очере́т (očerét) — grass-like plant
• Ukrainian: трости́на (trostýna) — grass-like plant
• Ukrainian: коми́ш (komýš) — grass-like plant
• Unami: anakànàskw — grass-like plant
• Vietnamese: sậy — grass-like plant
• Walloon: rozea — grass-like plant
• Bulgarian: тръстика (trǎstika) — hollow stem
• Dutch: rietstengel — hollow stem
• Finnish: ruoko — hollow stem
• French: canne — hollow stem
• French: jonc — hollow stem
• Galician: cana — hollow stem
• German: Schilfrohr — hollow stem
• Greek: καλάμι (kalámi) — hollow stem
• Italian: canna — hollow stem
• Persian: کلک (kelk) — hollow stem
• Polish: trzcina — hollow stem
• Portuguese: cana — hollow stem
• Portuguese: colmo — hollow stem
• Russian: тростни́к (trostník) — hollow stem
• Spanish: junco — hollow stem
• Ottoman Turkish: قلم (kalem) — hollow stem
• Ottoman Turkish: خامه (hame) — hollow stem
• Armenian: լեզվակ (lezvak) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Bulgarian: платък (platǎk) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Catalan: canya — music: part of mouthpiece
• Catalan: llengüeta — music: part of mouthpiece
• Chinese Mandarin: 簧片 (huángpiàn) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Dutch: riet — music: part of mouthpiece
• Esperanto: anĉo — music: part of mouthpiece
• Finnish: ruokokieli — music: part of mouthpiece
• Finnish: lehdykkä — music: part of mouthpiece
• French: anche — music: part of mouthpiece
• Galician: palleta — music: part of mouthpiece
• German: Rohrblatt — music: part of mouthpiece
• German: Blatt — music: part of mouthpiece
• German: Blättchen — music: part of mouthpiece
• Greek: γλωττίδα (glottída) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Greek: καλάμι (kalámi) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Icelandic: blað — music: part of mouthpiece
• Irish: feag — music: part of mouthpiece
• Irish: geocán — music: part of mouthpiece
• Italian: ancia — music: part of mouthpiece
• Japanese: リード — music: part of mouthpiece
• Khmer: កន្លើត (kɑnlaət) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Khmer: អណ្ដាត (ɑndaat) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Luxembourgish: Blietchen — music: part of mouthpiece
• Malay: lidah serunai — music: part of mouthpiece
• Māori: tohe — music: part of mouthpiece
• Māori: tohetohe — music: part of mouthpiece
• Norwegian: rør — music: part of mouthpiece
• Polish: stroik — music: part of mouthpiece
• Portuguese: palheta — music: part of mouthpiece
• Russian: язычо́к (jazyčók) — music: part of mouthpiece
• Spanish: caña — music: part of mouthpiece
• Swedish: rör — music: part of mouthpiece
• Turkish: kamış — music: part of mouthpiece
• Finnish: lehdykkäsoitin — music: type of wind instrument
• French: instrument à anche — music: type of wind instrument
• German: Rohrblattinstrument — music: type of wind instrument
• Italian: strumento ad ancia — music: type of wind instrument
• Khmer: ប៉ី (pəy) — music: type of wind instrument
• Polish: instrument drewniany — music: type of wind instrument
• Bulgarian: бърдо (bǎrdo) — weaving
• Chinese Mandarin: 筘 (kòu) — weaving
• Czech: paprsek — weaving
• Finnish: pirta — weaving
• Finnish: kaide — weaving
• French: peigne — weaving
• Icelandic: hræll — weaving
• Italian: pettine — weaving
• Japanese: 筬 (osa) — weaving
• Khmer: ធ្មេញឈើ (tmɨɲ chəə) — weaving
• Portuguese: pente — weaving
• Swedish: vävsked — weaving
• Bulgarian: тръстика (trǎstika) — material
• Finnish: kaisla — material
• Finnish: ruoko — material
• French: roseau — material